#48 - Nir Eyal - Distraction: Why You’re Wrong About It
Origin Story with David McIntosh Jr
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How to Overcome Internal Triggers
We have to ask ourselves, what prompts our selves to these actions? So here we have our triggers. Internal triggers are uncomfortable emotional states that we seek to escape from. 90 % of the time that we go off track, whether it's eating something we later regret or spending money in a way that we later regret. The fourth step is to prevent distraction with pacts. A pact is a pre commiminte, when we decide in advance what we are going to do to prevent ourselves from getting distracted. This is how we become indistractible and more powerful than any distractions.
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